English Literature - Poetry Anthology
CCEA GCSE English Literature - Poetry Anthology Poetry Anthology GCSE ENGLISH LITERATURE For use with the Specification for first teaching from Autumn 2017 and first examination in Summer 2018 Issued: August 2017 Poetry Anthology For use with the Specification for first teaching from Autumn 2017 and first examination in Summer 2018 Issued: August 2017 English 1 Literature CCEA GCSE English Literature - Poetry Anthology 2 CCEA GCSE English Literature - Poetry Anthology Contents Page Anthology One: IDENTITY 5 Anthology Two: RELATIONSHIPS 23 Anthology Three: CONFLICT 37 3 CCEA GCSE English Literature - Poetry Anthology 4 CCEA GCSE English Literature - Poetry Anthology Anthology One: IDENTITY 5 CCEA GCSE English Literature - Poetry Anthology SONNET 29 When, in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes, I all alone beweep my outcast state, And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries, And look upon myself and curse my fate, Wishing me like to one more rich in hope, Featured like him, like him with friends possessed, Desiring this man’s art and that man’s scope, With what I most enjoy contented least: Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising, Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven’s gate; For thy sweet love remembered such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings. William Shakespeare 6 CCEA GCSE English Literature - Poetry Anthology DOVER BEACH The sea is calm to-night, The tide is full, the moon lies fair Upon the Straits;―on the French coast, the light Gleams, and is gone; the cliffs of England stand, Glimmering and vast, out in the tranquil bay.
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